He is one of them.

We shall meet again, and this time he shall not escape me!" In a moment all was excitement and bustle.

The men, sobered by the near presence of danger, were at their posts in a moment.

All knew that the fort was not strong, and that a resolute assault by a large force would he difficult to repel; but at least they had not been taken by surprise, and that was something.
A yell from without told that something was going on there.

The Rangers were driving off a party of men who had crept up under cover of the mist wreaths, hoping to fire the huts outside, and so burn the fort.